I was fairly certain from about the time I was about eight that God didn`t exist; that it was a nonsensical idea. And what did make me cross when I got to University is that people were still arguing the toss about whether God existed

the whole thing about 50 Shades of Grey is the subtle way that it was marketed so that you had to have read it and if you hadn`t read it you were hiding from the inevitable. You were being an intellectual coward and I`m very happy to say that I`m an intellectual coward. My own feeling is that life is too short. At 73 I really don`t need to know a whole lot of new positions.

Go for it, Julia. You don`t understand how tough it is for little girls who think that to have a fat arse is to be dead, is to be finished. Women are fat-arsed creatures. Go right ahead, Julia. Wave that ass.

My problem with Julia`s jackets is they didn`t seem to me to belong to her. Now, you must understand that I have I spend a third of my time in Queensland and so I was used to Anna Bligh and Anna Bligh`s clothes always seemed to be hers but Julia’s clothes seem to come out of some kind of a stage hamper somewhere. She looked like an organ grinder`s monkey and this ..

in case you haven`t noticed, we are very close to destroying probably the most extraordinary planet in the entire set up and we`ve got to suddenly turn our attention round to keeping this one going before we decide to go and pollute and bugger up another planet in somebody else`s galaxy.